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- Title
Re-Imagined Homes: Transnational Asian American Writing in Annie Wang's The People's Republic of Desire.
- Authors
Binbin Fu
- Abstract
This essay proposes that Annie Wang's The People's Republic of Desire (2006) offers a new home-identity alignment for Asian American subjectivity in the transnational space of the Pacific Rim, an alternative to the predominant cultural nationalist model for homeidentity configuration defined within the US nation-state boundaries. It argues that contemporary cosmopolitan life brought about by global capital has created a more flexible, border-defying cultural imaginary across the Pacific for Asian American writing and the making of Asian American identity outside the nation-state, yet its fluidity, by dissolving the traditional bond between home and identity, also signifies Asian Americans' continuous displacement and dividedness between national and transnational imperatives.
- Subjects
WANG, Annie; PEOPLE'S Republic of Desire, The (Book); CULTURAL nationalism; JOY Luck Club, The (Book : Tan); HOMEBASE (Book); WONG, Shawn; HARPERCOLLINS Publishers LLC; CHICK lit
- Publication
Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language & Literature, 2015, Vol 9, Issue 1, p51
- ISSN
1985-3106
- Publication type
Article